{"id":92,"date":"2010-02-24T10:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/geography\/2010\/02\/24\/coral-reefs\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T18:22:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T00:22:45","slug":"coral-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/geography\/coral-reefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral Reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo from flickr.com by <\/span>Androfire<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (<\/span>Some rights reserved<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n

From the IGCSE syllabus:<\/p>\n

Describe the conditions required for the development of
\ncoral reefs.<\/p>\n

Describe
\n\u2022\u00a0 fringing and barrier reefs
\n\u2022 atolls<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Describe the location of coral reefs, and the necessary conditions for their development:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/library.thinkquest.org\/C0125204\/about\/coraldist.swf<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mbgnet.net\/salt\/coral\/where.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.seaworld.org\/infobooks\/coral\/habdiscr.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.starfish.ch\/reef\/reef.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.marinebio.net\/marinescience\/04benthon\/crform.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Understand and make brief notes on how coral reefs operate as an ecosystem:<\/p>\n

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Make notes on the different types of reef and how they are formed. Sketch diagrams to add to your explanations. Make sure you focus on fringing reefs, barrier reefs and atolls. For each, you should be able to give a named example. :<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.jochemnet.de\/fiu\/OCB3043_39.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.starfish.ch\/reef\/reef.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atoll<\/a><\/p>\n

Fringing reef:<\/p>\n

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Source: http:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/fs\/2002\/fs025-02\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Atolls:<\/p>\n

\"Ulithi-atoll\"<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ulithi-atoll.gif<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Coral_atoll_formation_animation\"<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Coral_atoll_formation_animation.gif<\/a><\/p>\n

\"atollfinal\"<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/fs\/2002\/fs025-02\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Describe and explain the human threats posed to coral reefs, and try to give named examples:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mbgnet.net\/salt\/coral\/threats.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.marinebio.net\/marinescience\/04benthon\/crform.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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Research some of the possible solutions to these threats.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nature.org\/joinanddonate\/rescuereef\/explore\/help.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo from flickr.com by Androfire (Some rights reserved) From the IGCSE syllabus: Describe the conditions required for the development of coral reefs. Describe \u2022\u00a0 fringing and barrier reefs \u2022 atolls Describe the location of coral reefs, and the necessary conditions for their development: http:\/\/library.thinkquest.org\/C0125204\/about\/coraldist.swf http:\/\/www.mbgnet.net\/salt\/coral\/where.htm http:\/\/www.seaworld.org\/infobooks\/coral\/habdiscr.html http:\/\/www.starfish.ch\/reef\/reef.html http:\/\/www.marinebio.net\/marinescience\/04benthon\/crform.htm Understand and make brief notes on how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,33,73],"tags":[78,77,75,76],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-igcse-geography","category-marine-processes","tag-attol","tag-barrier-reef","tag-coral-reefs","tag-fringing-reef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}